Today was a lazy day!

Today was a very lazy day for the Nutt family. Today was my day off and we had planned work to do around the house but it was raining and sleeting half the day and then very windy and cold so we just decided to stay in side and played with Grace and we also watched a "Extreme Home Makeover" on the Internet and then some TV. Steph and I did manage to get the finances worked on and Christmas looks very iffy. Way to much money, probably more than we have to pay our regular bills and then for the trip back to Michigan for Christmas, so we might just have to stay home for Christmas. I don't want to do that but not for sure what to do!

Grace is still growing like a weed and we can just barely make out some English words she is saying. But they are mostly her repeating what we said, some one worders, (is that a word?).

Uncle Tim called and talked to me for a little while on the phone. It was good to talk to him briefly. Final got on the treadmill we bought from some church friends on Wednesday. It worked great! We put it in front of the TV and I was able to walk for a 1/2 hour and watch sports. This treadmill even has a timer on it to keep track of how long you have walked and how far you have walked. Very nice! We spent dinner time around the table, the 3 of us and just laughed up a storm while eating pork chops with baked potato's, cooked carrot slices and salad. Grace just made us laugh with her funny faces and the gibberish she was saying. It sounded like she said the "ninja" at the end of a sentence and I told Grace that she couldn't be a ninja when she grew up but that Daddy wanted her to be a mom and a housewife. I said to Grace "just leave that ninja stuff to turtles."

Grace got a bath tonight from Mommy and as Mommy came out she said "I should have just taken a bath with her cause she was splashing so much, getting me wet. Probably shoulda had you Daddy in her to help so we could have tag teaming to give Grace a bath." Mommy put too much water in the bath tub and Grace took advantage of it. Mommy then put her to bed with a bottle and she wasn't hungry so she started crying fiercely so I went in to calm her down but she wouldn't calm down till I rocked her to sleep. Daddy almost feel asleep himself in the chair. After I felt she was thoroughly asleep I put her back into her crib. Grace will be 10 months old by the end of this month. It's unreal how big and how fast time is going by. I will be excited, so I think, to talk to her when she can talk.

I'm glad today is Friday and not Saturday. At least I get another day to relax before going into Sunday with church and Monday back to work. Less than two weeks to Thanksgiving and Steph and I are already in the Christmas mood. We listen to Christmas music and at times I eat like crazy to practice having a Santa figure. Just kidding! I weigh in tomorrow morning and I think so far I have lost 25lbs since September 26. I have noticed I have a lot more energy and can fit into more clothes that were retired or so I thought.

Steph and I with Grace gathered around the piano and sang hymns. It was a good time of family closeness and it was fun to see Grace try and hit the keys while standing against the piano. Well, lets just say that Mommy and Daddy sang while Grace sang in her own 'key'. Lol! Well tomorrow's weather should be the same as today's so I may night do much tomorrow, cept maybe get Mommy to give me a haircut. Later!

What is Armistice Day?

I asked myself the same question so I went online to find out and wow! It was interesting, but I only will copy & paste the history facts and if it wets your whistle then you can go research more yourself. This is the day when we thank God for the veterans. We thank God for victory in World War I. We thank God for those who paid the supreme sacrifice so that we might be free. We thank God for the servicemen and women and pray for them. So let us pause today to ask God's blessings upon our servicemen and women. LET US PRAY FOR THOSE WHO ARE FACING SERIOUS DANGER TODAY. Let us pray for those by name whom we know personally. Thank you for reading...

Veterans Day: The Forgotten Meaning

The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.

That was the moment at which World War I largely came to end in 1918. One of the most tragically senseless and destructive periods in all history came to a close in Western Europe with the Armistice -- or end of hostilities between Germany and the Allied nations -- that began at that moment. Some 20 million people had died in the fighting that raged for more than four years since August 1914. The complete end of the war came with the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919.

The date of Nov. 11 became a national holiday of remembrance in many of the victorious allied nations -- a day to commemorate the loss of so many lives in the war. And in the United States, President Wilson proclaimed the first Armistice Day on Nov. 11, 1919. A few years later, in 1926, Congress passed a resolution calling on the President to observe each November eleventh as a day of remembrance:

Whereas the 11th of November 1918, marked the cessation of the most destructive, sanguinary, and far reaching war in human annals and the resumption by the people of the United States of peaceful relations with other nations, which we hope may never again be severed; and

Whereas it is fitting that the recurring anniversary of this date should be commemorated with thanksgiving and prayer and exercises designed to perpetuate peace through good will and mutual understanding between nations; and

Whereas the legislatures of twenty-seven of our States have already declared November 11 to be a legal holiday: Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), that the President of the United States is requested to issue a proclamation calling upon the officials to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on November 11 and inviting the people of the United States to observe the day in schools and churches, or other suitable places, with appropriate ceremonies of friendly relations with all other peoples.

Of course, the hopes that "the war to end all wars" would bring peace were short-lived. By 1939, Europe was again at war and what was once called "the Great War" would become World War I. With the end of World War II, there was a movement in America to rename Armistice Day and create a holiday that recognized the veterans of all of America's conflicts. President Eisenhower signed that law in 1954. (In 1971, Veterans Day began to be marked as a Monday holiday on the third Monday in November, but in 1978, the holiday was returned to the traditional Nov. 11 date).

Today, Veterans Day honors the duty, sacrifice and service of America's nearly 25 million veterans of all wars. We should remember and celebrate those men and women. But lost in that worthy goal is the forgotten meaning of this day in history -- the meaning which Congress gave to Armistice Day in 1926: "to perpetuate peace through good will and mutual understanding between nations ... inviting the people of the United States to observe the day ... with appropriate ceremonies of friendly relations with all other peoples."

The Veterans Administration website offers more resources on teaching about Veterans Day.

 

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